Last night we had tornado warnings. Several were spotted and one touched down close to where Dave used to work (in Round Rock). There was a terrible storm and it was headed right towards us! We were watching the news around 9:30 pm and it was showing the storm on the Doppler and the weather man kept saying, "Tornado warning and severe thunderstorms around the Lakeline Mall area. Take cover." We live minutes from that mall! Luckily, we are fine and our house, neighborhood, etc. are fine. Some of the surrounding areas had hail damage (I guess in some places it was baseball size) but we did not get much if any hail. It did make for a LONG night. We spent some quality family time crammed in our master closet where we keep our 72 hour kits. Once we felt like it was safe to leave the closet, the kids slept in our room as we were not comfortable sending them upstairs to their rooms. Being from Wyoming where we never have tornadoes, it was a scary experience for me. The sky was very eerie. We had severe thunder, lightning, and wind until approximately 2:00 a.m. Dave grew up in Missouri and South Dakota where they have lots of tornadoes so he wasn't as freaked out as I was! Needless to say, we didn't get much sleep last night!
Thursday, May 15, 2008
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Scary! We had lots of tornado warnings growing up in Michigan, but nothing ever came to close. Good thing you have a big master closet-I don't know if our whole family would fit in ours?! :)-(but we do have a basement)
Never been through one of those before...good for you for having those 72 hr kits ready. Mine are in my garage and I'd better go check to make sure I even have one for Josie!
Yeah we had no clue and we live literally less than a mile from the mall. We were just chilling in our bed watching the game. Nice.
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